Teaching materials from commission workshops on methods for empirical research with map users. Please cite these materials appropriately if you use them in any form.
Adaptable Research Methods for Empirical Research with Map Users (online, 2021)
Workshop co-organised with the ICA Commission on User Experience on 6 May 2021, sharing experiences of adapting user studies for remote and online settings: online experiments, remote usability testing, distributed map studies and online eye tracking. Workshop programme
ICC 2015, Curitiba, Brazil
Pre-conference workshop Designing and Conducting User Studies, 20–21 August 2015.
- Methods and techniques of use, user and usability research in geo-information processing and dissemination (PDF) – Kristien Ooms
- Designing your user study or experiment (PDF) – Amy Griffin
- Hypothesis – a tool to conduct cartographic user research (PDF) – Zbyněk Štěrba
- When and how to apply eye tracking (PDF) – Kristien Ooms
ICC 2013, Dresden, Germany
Pre-conference workshop on eye tracking, 25 August 2013, with the ICA Commissions on Geovisualization and Use and User Issues. Workshop programme and materials · Data challenge
AutoCarto 2012, Columbus, OH, USA
Pre-conference workshop on experimental methods, September 2012, with the ICA Commission on Use and User Issues.
- Methods and techniques of use, user and usability research in geo-information processing and dissemination (PDF) – Kristien Ooms & Corné van Elzakker
- Improving the usability of pedestrian navigation systems (PDF) – Ioannis Delikostidis & Corné van Elzakker
- Designing your user study or experiment (PDF) – Amy Griffin
- Research instrument integrity (PDF) – Amy Lobben
- Working with the card sorting method (PDF) – Robert Roth
More methods, tools and reading lists are on the Resources page.